page_title: Lucinda Barbour Helm
section_title: Selected works
hierarchical_section_title: Lucinda Barbour Helm / Selected works
caption_attribution_description: English: Gerard: The call of the church-bell, a story, by Helm, Lucinda Barbour
context_page_description: Lucinda Barbour Helm was a 19th-century American author, editor, and women's religious activist from Kentucky. She wrote sketches, short stories, and religious leaflets. Helm published one volume, Gerard: The Call of the Church Bell. She was an active member of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church and of the International Christian Workers' Association.
  Helm was the founder of the Woman's Parsonage and Home Mission Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In 1892, the publication of a magazine called Our Homes was begun, with Helm as editor. In 1893, she resigned as General Secretary of the Woman's Parsonage and Home Mission Society because of overwork and spent her remaining years editing Our Homes. She died in 1897 is buried at her place of birth, Helm Place.
caption: Gerard: The call of the church-bell
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